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Hillary in 2012!
Here's one thing George W. and Hillary have in common: She never was a big consumer of news. In fact, according to Carl Bernstein's book, during her Little Rock years "Hillary didn't read newspapers or watch television news. Instead, she listened to National Public Radio or classical music in the morning. If there was anything else she really needed to know, she figured, she'd be told about it early in the day, either by Bill on the phone or Vince in the office. But even in her earliest days as first lady of Arkansas, "she didn't want to read about things that would bother her and about which she could do nothing,'' said Betsey Wright. "She saw it as an irritant.'' So perhaps no one's made her aware of the David Brooks column you mentioned, Meghan. Not that she needs him to tell her it's over—and has been for some time, if you're going to be a total math drone about it. Honestly, if you didn't know better, you might even have begun to suspect she was hanging in there at least in part to do the maximum damage to her party's nominee, weakening his chances in the fall and building the I-told-you-so case for Hillary in 2012. But that couldn't be right. Right?
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